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Æ12 - Augustus ΤΗΙΩΝ
| Issuer | Teos (Conventus of Smyrna) |
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| Year | 27 BC - 14 AD |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Bare head of Augustus facing right, rendered in the idealized Hellenistic portrait style typical of eastern provincial coinage. The emperor's features are depicted with a smooth, youthful treatment consistent with Augustan iconography. The Greek legend ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΣ (Augustus) appears in the field, likely divided around the portrait. The flan is small and irregular, characteristic of civic bronze coinage from the Ionian region during the early Imperial period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Teos, a coastal Ionian city best known in antiquity as the birthplace of the lyric poet Anacreon, issued bronze civic coinage under Augustus as part of the broader reorganization of the Greek East following Actium. The city fell within the conventus of Smyrna, one of the judicial districts Rome imposed across the province of Asia to manage what had become an extraordinarily complex administrative inheritance from the Attalid kingdom.
The ethnic ΤΗΙΩΝ — "of the Teians" — places civic pride front and center even as Roman authority reshaped the political ground beneath it.